"Ruin tower and house adjoining other walls" = Carrigogunnell Castle!
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Where: Limerick, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1870
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Far be it from us at Library Towers to let people rest on their laurels, and as our original fiendish Mwahaha (evil laughter) was finally solved yesterday after 10 months, I had hoped to challenge you today.
All we had as a description was "Ruin tower and house adjoining other walls, people". Had hoped it'd prove a tad challenging, but 'twas not to be. Thanks very much to blackpoolbeach for identifying these ruins as Carrigogunnell (also Carrigogunnel) Castle!
Either way, also like this image for the spooky way that people seem to loom out of the background when you peer into all corners of it really carefully...
Date: 1860-1883
NLI Ref.: STP_1857
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 34994
All we had as a description was "Ruin tower and house adjoining other walls, people". Had hoped it'd prove a tad challenging, but 'twas not to be. Thanks very much to blackpoolbeach for identifying these ruins as Carrigogunnell (also Carrigogunnel) Castle!
Either way, also like this image for the spooky way that people seem to loom out of the background when you peer into all corners of it really carefully...
Date: 1860-1883
NLI Ref.: STP_1857
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 34994
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Scadán Dearg
The OPW would have health and safety melt down if they saw patrons up there today!
Scadán Dearg
My guess is somewhere south Galway/Burren
derangedlemur
Looks like Dunluce castle.
Scadán Dearg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Where's that?
derangedlemur
Near the giant's causeway. It's not it though - I compared it to a few other images.
blackpoolbeach
Carrigogunnell Castle Ruins www.geograph.ie/photo/494222
derangedlemur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpoolbeach Good Job!
derangedlemur
It's one of the few castles in the country I haven't seen. I must go there sometime.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpoolbeach Trying to wholeheartedly congratulate you, Pete! But secretly raaagin' that you got it so quickly... :) Adding a Location Identified tag too!
TJ.Photography
go hiontach :)))
En France-Europe
Belle photo
blackpoolbeach
I just put 'ruined castle ireland' into Google Image Search. Next one please. Google Street View
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpoolbeach Quietly shaking fist at Google! :)
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
I have found twelve people so far. Any more?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I make it 12 too! It was the girl in the petticoats that startled me the most - thought she was a rock formation...
probable ice
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpoolbeach well spotted.
blackpoolbeach
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Only 6 more uploads to reach your 1000. Anything special lined up?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpoolbeach I spotted that too the other day, Eagle Eye! Now you're giving me performance anxiety... :) Though will don thinking cap.
lmldolz
Wow! A wonderful picture!
Swordscookie
The one day in I did not get a chance to look at the NLI stream and what comes up? The place where I played as a boy and that lives in my dreams comes up and I miss it and the man who knows Blackpool beach gets the prize;-(((((. I feel sick, I resign, I give up. Hope you have something interesting on Monday Carol.
Swordscookie
Carrigogunnell was part of the outer defences for Limerick with a dramatic view of the Shannon. Around the time of the sieges of Limerick it too was. Esieged and the conquerors blew it up so that it could no longer be used. That explains the dilapidated condition.
maorlando - God keeps me as I lean on Him!!
Marvelous vintage photo and wonderful as always sleuth work on the ID... way to go!!!!
Erwinmaack
I get up early like Dad and go on long walks into the country.I walk around the graveyard in the old abbey at Mungret where my mother's relations are buried and I go up the boreen to the Norman castle at Carrigogunnell where Dad brought me twice. I climb to the top and Ireland is spread out before me, the Shannon shining its way to the Atlantic. Frank McCourt